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"We are grateful to the family for getting these items to a safe place," said the police.

Today, outspoken sergeant Harry Tangye, Firearms Commander and Tactics Advisor for Devon and Cornwall police has retweeted the Kingsbridge tweet - with the message: "A completely different mindset from the USA.

"We are certainly worlds apart with certain things, not many, but some things."

Nikolas Cruz, 19, has been charged with 17 counts of premeditated murder over the incident Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School, Parkland, just before classes ended on Wednesday afternoon, reports The Mirror.

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The shooting was the 18th in a US school this year, according to gun control group Everytown for Gun Safety.

A student who was in class at the time of the shooting said she "cannot unsee" the terror that unfolded before her.

Morgan Williams described on Twitter how her friends were killed as the gunman roamed through the school corridors.

She said: "I cannot stop hearing the sound of the gun as he walked down my hallway. I cannot unsee my classmates who were shot get carried out by police. I cannot unsee the bodies on the floor.

"Never in a million years did I think I would have ever gone through this. There is no reason why I should have had to run past deceased friends and classmates to get to safety because there isn't a control on how easy it is to get a gun."

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As a high school freshman, Cruz was part of the US military-sponsored Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corp programme at the school, according to Jillian Davis, 19, a recent graduate and former fellow JROTC member at Stoneman Douglas High.

In an interview with Reuters, Davis recalled his "strange talking sometimes about knives and guns" and said "no one ever took him seriously".

Former classmate Eddie Bonilla told CBS Miami he knew Cruz before he got kicked out of school.

"He got kicked out of school last year," said Bonilla. "He always had guns on him and stuff like that.

"Honestly a lot of people a lot of people were saying it was going to be him.

"We actually, a lot of kids threw jokes around Iike that, saying that he's the one to shoot up the school, but it turns out everyone predicted it. It's crazy."